Subject: Re: Freescale 7448 eval board
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 01/30/2006 14:33:48
The poweron message indicates U-Boot 1.1.2(Taiga_V2_r2) from Sep 8 2005
My understanding is that Freescale takes the current U-Boot and internally
(not available to people outside Freescale) modifies it to work on new
boards with the intention of eventually making the new code public.
At 11:21 AM 1/30/2006 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
>Steven Grunza wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a Freescale 7448 eval board
> >
> (http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MCEVALHPC2-7448&srch=1)
> > on loan for about a month.
> >
> > If anyone is interested in providing some pointers or help I would
> > like to try to get NetBSD running on this board. My actual job is to
> > evaluate the 7448 for a low power job; however, since I have the board I
> > would like to be able to run NetBSD on it.
>
>What firmware does it have? It looks like the northbridge is a Tundra.
>I don't think we have support for that.
>
>--
>Matt Thomas email: matt@3am-software.com
>3am Software Foundry www: http://3am-software.com/bio/matt/
>Cupertino, CA disclaimer: I avow all knowledge of this message.
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